To:MAXIM GORKY

Published:First published in 1924.

      Sent from Geneva to the Isle of Capri (Italy).

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1974,

      Moscow,Volume 34,

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March 16, 1908

It’sa pity I can’t manage to go and see you. A reply has come from
Brussels[1]and here there is no delay. But there is no money and no
time, and I cannot abandon the newspaper.

Judgingfrom the fact that you own a nanny-goat, I see that you are in a good
humour, the right frame of mind, and life is normal with you. With us things are
going none too well. We are pretty much at loggerheads with Al. Al. over this
philosophy. I am neglecting the newspaper because of my hard bout of philosophy:
one day I read one of the empirio-critics and swear like a fishwife, next day I
read another and swear still worse. And Innokenty scolds me—and quite
right too—for neglectingProletary. Things are not running
smoothly.

Ah,well, it’s only natural. Things will come right.

Itwould be fine if you could manage to write forProletarywithout
your major works suffering.

Withwarm greetings and best regards to A. Vas. and Maria Fyodorovna.

Yours,Lenin

[1]Thisrefers to an invitation to Lenin to attend the meeting of the
International Socialist Bureau.